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Rob Zombie, the horror-fuelled heavy metal icon, is gearing up to unleash his eighth studio album The Great Satan on February 27 through Nuclear Blast Records. The follow-up to 2021's The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy, the new record promises a return to the raw, psychotic sound of Zombie's Hellbilly Deluxe era.

After four decades of redefining thrash metal, Megadeth have officially entered their final chapter with the release of their blistering new single ‘Tipping Point', the first track from what's confirmed to be their seventeenth and final studio album, due 23 January 2026. The as-yet-untitled album will mark the end of a monumental career that began in 1983 when Dave Mustaine turned his dismissal from Metallica into one of heavy metal's greatest comebacks.

Lamb of God have roared back with a brand-new single, “Sepsis”, their first original music since 2022's Omens. The track arrives with all the menace, intensity and uncompromising heaviness fans have come to expect from the Richmond, Virginia metal titans.

Extreme metal veterans Soulfly are gearing up for the release of their thirteenth studio album Chama on 24 October 2025 through Nuclear Blast Records. Ahead of the record, the band have unveiled a punishing new single, ‘Nihilist', featuring a guest appearance from Todd Jones of Nails.

Heavy metal has always thrived on moments that defy expectation, and today one of the genre's most historic collaborations has landed. Shortly before his death, Ozzy Osbourne teamed with fellow British metal pioneers Judas Priest for a brand-new charity version of Black Sabbath's immortal classic War Pigs.

American metal stalwarts Corrosion of Conformity have thrown fans a curveball with a loose, live-in-the-room rendition of Free’s ‘Fire And Water’. The impromptu take on the 1970 rock staple was born in the studio while the band were laying down tracks for their as-yet-untitled new album, due in 2025.

Knotfest has confirmed it will not be staged in Australia in 2026. After three consecutive years that brought the biggest names in metal to local stages, the festival will take a pause before returning in 2027.